{"id":628,"date":"2019-08-26T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/08\/26\/single-transistor-regen-has-qso-potential-video\/"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:15:00","slug":"single-transistor-regen-has-qso-potential-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/08\/26\/single-transistor-regen-has-qso-potential-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Transistor Regen Has QSO Potential (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aMx2N8BoVUY\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>In my previous blog post I&#8217;d expressed skepticism about using a single transistor regen on the air. But over the years I&#8217;ve learned to give new receivers a chance. They usually don&#8217;t work perfectly on the first try. You have to work with them. It is almost as if you have to peak and tweak a lot in order to get them to properly inhale signals from the ether. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>That has been the case with this little receiver. I found some silly mistakes in my construction. And I decided to try some more sensitive headphones. I ditched the 1000 to 8 ohm AF transformer. And I added a very small variable cap for fine tuning. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>The results are amazing. See video above. It performs as well as most of the direct conversion receivers I&#8217;ve built. It is remarkably stable. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I do think I could make contacts with this receiver. I might eventually go the full ET-1 route and try to do it with a single switched FET, but I think my next step will be to built a single transistor crystal controlled transmitter on the same piece of wood, and try to make<\/b> <b>some contacts with a two-transistor rig. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous blog post I&#8217;d expressed skepticism about using a single transistor regen on the air. But over the years I&#8217;ve learned to give new receivers a chance. They usually don&#8217;t work perfectly on the first try. You have to work with them. It is almost as if you have to peak and tweak &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/08\/26\/single-transistor-regen-has-qso-potential-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Single Transistor Regen Has QSO Potential (Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,85,87,203,148,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40-meters","category-minimalist-radio","category-qrp","category-regen","category-regens","category-sprat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}